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  Ethernet Card is Gone

  Admin 5:14 am on 2 February 2012 | 0 Permalink
  

  My wife's laptop had a serious problem right after upgrading to Firefox 10. I don't think it's related as Firefox is an application and the problem itself is hardware-related, which is the broken ethernet.
  
  She told me that after upgrading to Firefox 10, the ethernet icon on her laptop was missing and i checked using ipconfig and it's really gone. I restarted the laptop with some hope that it might just a glitch, but unfortunately it's not. It happened some time ago, and i hope by restarting, all will be fixed, but i was wrong. It's really gone and since it's wireless chipset is also having some problems, the laptop is connectionless for now.
  
  I will bring it to the computer store to be repaired by tomorrow and hopefully it can be fixed, since ethernet port in a laptop is not the same as in PC/desktop in which you can just simply replace the card by another one. For now, i will just ask her to simply backup all her data just in case we had to reinstall the Windows again (it hasn't been reinstalled since 2008 since there was no problem with the system).

  

  
   
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  Firefox 10 Released

  Admin 1:51 am on 2 February 2012 | 0 Permalink
  

  It's February 1 and a new major release of Firefox has just been released. Firefox has now reached version 10. It's now available from auto-update mechanism that was built in into the product itself. If you happened to use a package from your Linux distribution, an update will come out soon enough since many packager disabled the auto update feature.
  
  What's new on this release? According to the release notes, this version brings several new features such as:
  

  • CSS 3D Transforms
  • Anti-Aliasing for WebGL
  • Invisible Forward button (will be visible when you press the Back button)
  • Full Screen API
  • IndexedDB API
  • Inspect tool with content highlighting

  Go get the new features and enjoy the new CSS 3D transformations (see some examples here)

  

  
   
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  Firefox 10 Released

  Admin 7:06 pm on 1 February 2012 | 0 Permalink
  

  It's February 1 and a new major release of Firefox has just been released. Firefox has now reached version 10. It's now available from auto-update mechanism that was built in into the product itself. If you happened to use a package from your Linux distribution, an update will come out soon enough since many packager disabled the auto update feature.
  
  What's new on this release? According to the release notes, this version brings several new features such as:
  

  • CSS 3D Transforms
  • Anti-Aliasing for WebGL
  • Invisible Forward button (will be visible when you press the Back button)
  • Full Screen API
  • IndexedDB API
  • Inspect tool with content highlighting

  Go get the new features and enjoy the new CSS 3D transformations (see some examples here)

  

  
   
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  New Lossless Color Image Compression: ImageZero

  Admin 11:19 pm on 31 January 2012 | 0 Permalink
  

  A new lossless color image compression algorithm called ImageZero is being developed after the author has been dissapointed with the current algorithm available on the market.
  
  By simply looking at the benchmarks results, it is quite remarkable:
  
  

  Method	File Size	Compression	Decompression
  uncompressed	46380 KB	-	-
  JLS	14984 KB	6.6 s	7.3 s
  PNG	16256 KB	42.4 s	2.4 s
  IZ	15496 KB	1.2 s	1.3 s

  I think this algorithm has a good chance to be further developed as it's now released as an open source project on gitorious.

  

  
   
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  New Lossless Color Image Compression: ImageZero

  Admin 5:20 pm on 31 January 2012 | 0 Permalink
  

  A new lossless color image compression algorithm called ImageZero is being developed after the author has been dissapointed with the current algorithm available on the market.
  
  By simply looking at the benchmarks results, it is quite remarkable:
  
  

  Method	File Size	Compression	Decompression
  uncompressed	46380 KB	-	-
  JLS	14984 KB	6.6 s	7.3 s
  PNG	16256 KB	42.4 s	2.4 s
  IZ	15496 KB	1.2 s	1.3 s

  I think this algorithm has a good chance to be further developed as it's now released as an open source project on gitorious.

  

  
   
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  Wasitup is Down

  Admin 4:55 am on 31 January 2012 | 0 Permalink
  

  Was It Up, an online server status checker is now taken offline due to increased burden of keeping it to stay online. It was a good service and i believe everyone who uses this service will also think the same way.
  
  It's a shame that this great service has to go offline until there's a new investor who can fund this project in the future. As for now, i'm using SiteUptime to monitor my server. It's not a real time though since it's a free service. If i choose the pro version, they will have a shorter time interval between each check.
  
  Another service that i use is Pingdom Panel which is more customizable than SiteUptime. It also offers free service where users may add 1 domain and free 20 sms alerts.

  

  
   
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  Wasitup is Down

  Admin 12:09 am on 31 January 2012 | 0 Permalink
  

  Was It Up, an online server status checker is now taken offline due to increased burden of keeping it to stay online. It was a good service and i believe everyone who uses this service will also think the same way.
  
  It's a shame that this great service has to go offline until there's a new investor who can fund this project in the future. As for now, i'm using SiteUptime to monitor my server. It's not a real time though since it's a free service. If i choose the pro version, they will have a shorter time interval between each check.
  
  Another service that i use is Pingdom Panel which is more customizable than SiteUptime. It also offers free service where users may add 1 domain and free 20 sms alerts.

  

  
   
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  Leap Year

  Admin 2:42 pm on 30 January 2012 | 0 Permalink
  

  Time does flies so fast. It's like that i have just started this semester and suddenly, i have come to third week out of 14 weeks for this semester. And it is the end of January. In the next two days, we will be coming to February.
  
  What interesting thing in February? Well, we have Valentine days and there's a special event that happened generally once in four years, which is the Leap Year.
  
  According to this article, women can propose to men. It was considered that as the day also had no legal status, it was reasonable to assume that tradition had no status, so women took advantage of this and proposed to the man they wanted to marry. This tradition is applicable for countries who forbids women to propose man during normal days, such as in Scotland

  

  
   
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  Leap Year

  Admin 8:52 am on 30 January 2012 | 0 Permalink
  

  Time does flies so fast. It's like that i have just started this semester and suddenly, i have come to third week out of 14 weeks for this semester. And it is the end of January. In the next two days, we will be coming to February.
  
  What interesting thing in February? Well, we have Valentine days and there's a special event that happened generally once in four years, which is the Leap Year.
  
  According to this article, women can propose to men. It was considered that as the day also had no legal status, it was reasonable to assume that tradition had no status, so women took advantage of this and proposed to the man they wanted to marry. This tradition is applicable for countries who forbids women to propose man during normal days, such as in Scotland

  

  
   
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  DNSCrypt to from OpenDNS

  Admin 8:39 pm on 29 January 2012 | 0 Permalink
  

  OpenDNS has been known for years due to their service the public by giving a safe DNS service. So far, they have done a great job of protecting the DNS service and also ease parent's job to protect their children by avoiding unappropriate content to be seen by children under age.
  
  They are now working to further enhance their service by introducing DNSCrypt, a new service which will solve the last mile problem that exists between user's computer and the ISP. Somewhere between this line, there can be a man-in-the-middle and DNS Spoofing attack. DNSCrypt solve this problem by securing your DNS request using cryptography so that it's secured by these kind of attack.
  
  They have release the project's source on GitHub and you can start downloading it (only for Mac at the moment).
  
  Have a look on the project's announcement to find out more about this project